On 7/9/14 7:24 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: >> Just to be fast, the article said 1.5Mbps >> Also, I completely missed that there was a page 2. It looks like they use >> Iridium. Here is some pricing. Just the first thing I found: >> >> http://www.sattransusa.com/irprpl.html >> >> Plan Monthly Amount Monthly Allowance Cost per 1000 Bytes >> Plan SBD 0 $27.00 0 Bytes $1.15 >> Plan SBD 12 $35.10 10,000 Bytes $1.05 >> Plan LBS 8* $28.78 8,000 Bytes $1.78 > Hi Scott, > > If it's Iridium they aren't doing 1.5mbps. Iridium has Short Burst > Data (SBD), a messaging service capable of sending and receiving a 2kB > message a couple times a minute and they have RUDICS, a 1200bps or > 2400bps (not kbps or mbps) synchronous serial service. They also have > a product which gangs enough RUDICS channels together to get a 56k > modem speed. Higher speed claims are "with compression." Russian Satellite Communications Company operates geostationary satellites as part of intelsat and eutelsat. Molniya insorfar as I'm aware still exists and is a constellation of high elliptical orbit communications satellites with a 12 hour orbit, it's specifically useful over the poles.
in one of the photos on the orignal live journal is an inmarsat terminal onbaord the vessel. http://nikitskij.livejournal.com/ the ship is the icebreaker yamal which at 23000 tons is a pretty big platform to mount hardware on. > >
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